Amazing park but don’t cross at Chief Mountain!! We crossed the border at Chief Mountain in order to take in the sites of Glacier and Waterton on our trip. The border guards were extremely unfriendly and allowed their huge hairy 90lb dog to jump ans scratch its way up into the back of our car and walk around snagging sweaters and sniffing our underpants. Can’t they get the dog a stepladder so it doesn’t have to tear up people’s paint jobs? They treated us like we were already guilty of something.

After that whole ordeal, the park entrance ranger was rude when we politely asked if our parks pass worked there too. “This is NOT america sir, you have to PAY for the canadian side of the park”. Then we had “high tea” at the Prince of Whales, and both the hotel and tea service were extremely disappointing. Go through a different border, avoid the hotel, watch out for pissed Canadians, and have a great scenic trip, enjoying the extraordinary natural aspects of the park! Hold onto your hat when you get to Waterton Lake, or the wind will take it away! :-) i LOVE canada, btw. this experience has left me saddened at their unwelcoming behaviour. The one exception was the extremely friendly staff at a surrey/bike rental shop who transferred my full camera card to a CD.